Cloudflare

For a while, I wanted to set up an Ubuntu archive mirror using Cloudflare. It felt like a natural idea: the archive is a set of static files that could be easily cached, and Cloudflare is very good at caching files close to users around the world. What is an archive mirror? If you have ever run apt update on Ubuntu, you have used the archive. It is a big collection of files: packages (.deb files) and index files (Packages.gz, Release, etc.) that tell apt what is available. ...